Download or read book Beale Air Force Base During the Cold War written by James B. Quest and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KLAXON! The alarm immediately sent the aircrews at Beale Air Force Base, California, scrambling to their alert aircraft in a race to get airborne first. The KC-135 tankers were usually the quickest to taxi out, with the B-52 bombers following closely behind. Soon, the air filled with the rumble of engines as aircraft roared down the runway trailing great clouds of exhaust and disappeared into the skies of Northern California. It was a dramatic scenario practiced many times during the Cold War and one that Universal Pictures filmed at Beale AFB for its movie A Gathering of Eagles, starring Rock Hudson and Rod Taylor.
Download or read book Historic Architectural Study of Beale Air Force Base Yuba County California written by Michael Corbett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beale Air Force Base During the Cold War written by James B. Quest and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KLAXON! The alarm immediately sent the aircrews at Beale Air Force Base, California, scrambling to their alert aircraft in a race to get airborne first. The KC-135 tankers were usually the quickest to taxi out, with the B-52 bombers following closely behind. Soon, the air filled with the rumble of engines as aircraft roared down the runway trailing great clouds of exhaust and disappeared into the skies of Northern California. It was a dramatic scenario practiced many times during the Cold War and one that Universal Pictures filmed at Beale AFB for its movie A Gathering of Eagles, starring Rock Hudson and Rod Taylor.
Download or read book Pebbles in the Stream written by Peggy Bal and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cold War Infrastructure for Strategic Air Command SAC written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating survey and detailed history of Strategic Air Command (SAC) bomber mission properties addressing the history of flightline real property supporting these missions from 1947 to 1991, with an emphasis on buildings and structures of the 1947 to 1963 period. During the more than half-century that unfolded between the closing months of World War II and winding down of the Cold War in 1989-1991, the U.S. War Department evolved into the Department of Defense as it is now understood, with its primary supporting arms of the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, and its reserve forces of the Army, Air Force, and Air National Guards. American military infrastructure is predominantly a phenomenon of the 1939-to-present period, thus precisely paralleling the modern movement in Western European and U.S. architecture and engineering. The years bracketed by 1945 and 1991 also mirror a particular world condition with regards to the development of nuclear weapons. During these decades knowledge within the scientific community emerged exponentially, yet was closely held by the two competing super powers of the U.S. and the Soviet Union into the 1980s. Coupled with strides in physics and mathematics accompanying the shifts from atomic to thermonuclear weaponry, were significant gains in computer capabilities, electronics, and the conquest of near- and far-space-all of which directly supported military activities such as higher order aircraft, radar surveillance, command and control, satellite monitoring, long-range missiles, smart weapons systems, unmanned devices, and general intelligence. Chapter 1 - Cold War Events and the Operational Infrastructure of the Air Force * 1946-1950 * The Germans * The Major Commands and First Generation Infrastructure * ADC and ANG * SAC * The 1950s * Evolution of the Directorate of Civil Engineering * Achieving Standardized Design * Prefabricated Structures, the Steel Industry, and Mobilization * The Major Commands and Second Generation Infrastructure * ADC and TAC * SAC * After 1960 * Chapter 2 - Evolution of Key Property Types * First Generation Maintenance Hangar for the B-36 * Second Generation Maintenance Hangar for the B-36, B-47, and B-52 * Prefabricated, Mobilization Infrastructure * Nose Docks, Temporary Shelters, and Wing Hangars * Prefabricated Airmen Dormitories * Pavement Experimentation for the Very Heavy Bomber * Q Areas * A Structures * C Structure * Plants I and II (A and B) * Command and Control Building * S Structure * Alert Apron Configurations and Crew Quarters * Headquarters Command Post and the SAC Chapel * Command Post * SAC Chapel * Late Cold War SAC Infrastructure * Chapter 3 - Character-Defining Features and National Register Integrity * First Generation Maintenance Hangar: the Thin-Shell, Concrete Structure * Second Generation Maintenance Hangar: the Steel, Double-Cantilever Series * Prefabricated, Mobilization Infrastructure * Wing Hangars * SAC Airmen Dormitories * Experimental Pavement * Q Areas * Alert Aprons and Moleholes * SAC Command Post and Chapel * Command Post * Chapel * Late Cold War Infrastructure * Chapter 4 - Real Property Management of Historic SAC Infrastructure * Barksdale Air Force Base * Beale Air Force Base * Cannon Air Force Base * Davis-Monthan Air Force Base * Dyess Air Force Base * Ellsworth Air Force Base * Holloman Air Force Base * Langley Air Force Base * Minot Air Force Base * Moody Air Force Base * Mountain Home Air Force Base * Nellis Air Force Base * Offutt Air Force Base * Seymour Johnson Air Force Base * Shaw Air Force Base * Whiteman Air Force Base * Chapter 5 - Recommendations * Current ACC Installations: Issues of Inventory * Nose Docks and Wing Hangars * Experimental Airfield Pavement * Alert Crew Trailers
Download or read book Cold War Infrastructure for Air Defense written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating survey and detailed history of air defense fighter and command mission properties addressing the history of flightline real property supporting these missions from 1947 to 1991, with an emphasis on buildings and structures of the 1947 to 1963 period. It is a companion volume to the book Cold War Infrastructure for Strategic Air Command (SAC): The Bomber Mission. During the more than half-century that unfolded between the closing months of World War II and winding down of the Cold War in 1989-1991, the U.S. War Department evolved into the Department of Defense as it is now understood, with its primary supporting arms of the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, and its reserve forces of the Army, Air Force, and Air National Guards. American military infrastructure is predominantly a phenomenon of the 1939-to-present period, thus precisely paralleling the modern movement in Western European and U.S. architecture and engineering. Chapter 1 - Cold War Events and the Operational Infrastructure of the Air Force * 1946-1950 * The Germans * The Major Commands and First Generation Infrastructure * ADC and ANG * SAC * The 1950s * Evolution of the Directorate of Civil Engineering * Achieving Standardized Design * Prefabricated Structures, the Steel Industry, and Mobilization * The Major Commands and Second Generation Infrastructure * ADC and TAC * SAC * After 1960 * Chapter 2 - Evolution of Key Property Types * First Generation Alert Hangars * The Overseas, Mobilization Hangar * The Gable-Roofed Anomaly * Primary Buildout: the Strobel & Salzman Hangar * The Butler Alert Hangar * First Generation Modified, and Second Generation, Alert Hangars * Modifications for the First Generation Hangars * Second Generation ADC Alert Hangar * TAC Hangars of the 1960s and 1970s * Support Structures for Alert * The Readiness Crew Dormitory and Squadron Operations * Flight Simulator * Readiness/Maintenance Hangars * Aircraft Shelters * Electronics and Calibration Structures * Hardened Aircraft Shelters for Overseas * Weapons Checkout and Storage * First Generation: Small Arms Storage * Second Generation: FFARs and GARs * Third Generation: The Nuclear-Tipped Genie * First Generation ADC Command and Control Structures * Second Generation ADC Command and Control: SAGE * Third Generation ADC Command and Control: BUIC and Post-BUIC * Chapter 3 - Character-Defining Features and National Register Integrity * First Generation Alert Hangar * First Generation (Modified) and Second Generation Alert Hangars * TAC Hangars * Support Structures for Alert * First Generation Command and Control * Second Generation Command and Control: SAGE * Third Generation Command and Control: BUIC and Post-BUIC * Chapter 4 - Real Property Management of Historic ADC and TAC Infrastructure * Barksdale Air Force Base * Beale Air Force Base * Cannon Air Force Base * Davis-Monthan Air Force Base * Dyess Air Force Base * Ellsworth Air Force Base * Holloman Air Force Base * Langley Air Force Base * Minot Air Force Base * Moody Air Force Base * Mountain Home Air Force Base * Nellis Air Force Base * Offutt Air Force Base * Seymour Johnson Air Force Base * Shaw Air Force Base * Whiteman Air Force Base * Chapter 5 - Recommendations * Current ACC Installations: Issues of Inventory * Fighter-Interceptor Alert Hangars * Support Structures * Command and Control * Current ACC Real Property: Issues of Documents and Drawings * Fighter-Interceptor Alert Hangars (1951-1959) * TAC Flightline Hangars (1961-1977) * Support Structures (1951-1962) * Air Force-Wide: Issues of Inventory and Recordation Across Real Property Types * Air Force-Wide: Issues of Documents and Drawings * Bibliography * General: U.S. Department of Defense and Related * Baseline Cold War Property Inventories: U.S. Air Force * Documents: U.S. Air Force * Drawings: U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Download or read book Beale Air Force Base AFB Realignment Marysville written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beale Air Force Base written by Military Affairs Committee of Sacramento Valley and published by . This book was released on 1955* with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wheatland written by The Wheatland Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of this western town, a number of dramatic historic events took place. While California was still Mexican territory, William Johnson purchased at auction the Mexican land grant formerly belonging to Pablo Gutierrez. Johnsons Rancho, as it came to be called, was the last stop on the Emigrant Trail to Sutters Fort in Sacramento. Seven members of the ill-fated Donner Party staggered into this ranch in 1847, seeking help for those left in the snowbound Sierra Nevada Mountains. Camp Far West was established here in 1849 as a military outpost to protect wagon trains heading into California, and when the state entered the Union in 1850, the area had become the logistic gateway to the Sierra foothill gold mines. Ultimately carved from Johnsons Rancho and incorporated in 1874, Wheatland became known for its agriculture and as a supply center to the mines, as well as being the site of the bloody 1913 Hop Riot, the first major migrant-worker labor confrontation in California.
Download or read book Laughlin Air Force Base written by Robert Thomas Marcell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today, Laughlin Air Force Base is one of the busiest pilot-producing bases in the world. ... During World War II, the base was called Laughlin Field and trained bomber pilots in the B-26 Marauder. The base closed in 1945, after the war, but reopened again as an Air Force base in 1952 to train fighter pilots for the Korean War. It then took on a Cold War mission from 1957-1963. During this time, The base was home to the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, which flew the U-2 spy plane. ... From 1961 onward, however, Laughlin has severed primarily as an undergraduate pilot training base ..."--Back cover
Download or read book Torrej n during The Cold War written by Manuel Carazo and published by Punto Rojo Libros. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torrejón Air Base opened officially on 1 June 1957 with SAC activating the 3970th Strategic Wing on 1 July 1957. The base hosting Sixteenth Air Force as well as SAC\"s 65th Air Division (Defense) where it cooperated with Spanish Air Force units in the Air Defense Direction Centers (ADDCs). The 65th Air Division directed base construction, and the establishment of off-base housing and radar sites. The division\"s fighter squadrons flew air defense interceptions over Spanish airspace.\r\nWith the phaseout of the B-47 from SAC in the mid-1960s, the need for SAC European bases diminished. The Sixteenth Air Force was turned over to United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE) on 15 April 1966 and the strategic focus changed to tactical. Prior to 1966, Torrejón AB hosted TDY squadrons of tactical aircraft rotating from CONUS TAC bases which would perform 30-day rotations to Aviano Air Base Italy and Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. \r\nThis book tells the story of the Torrejon Air Base from.1957 to 1992\r\n
Download or read book Welcome to Beale Air Force Base written by Military Affairs Committee of the Sacramento Valley and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Fifty written by Air Force Association and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of 419th Engineer Aviation Brigade Beale Air Force Base California 1 May 1951 25 September 1955 written by United States. Air Force. 419th Engineer Aviation Brigade and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Offutt Air Force Base written by Ben Justman and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1888, and Pres. Grover Cleveland has just signed into law a bill that will lead to the establishment of Fort Crook. In 1948, that Army post gained a new name: Offutt Air Force Base. The history of Offutt Air Force Base is truly unlike that of any other military installation. In the face of adversity, it has overcome challenges during the United States' rise to global prominence, was active during the golden age of flight, and served as a wartime bomber plant. The base remained ever vigilant during the Cold War and continues to do so as a combatant of 21st-century threats. Its remarkable existence of nearly 125 years can serve as a road map of US history. Today, the 55th Wing serves as the host unit for Offutt Air Force Base; its motto, "Videmus Omnia" ("We See All"), can also be applied to the saga of the base.
Download or read book 612th Squadron written by Mary Dickey Estes and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Air Force base at the radar station in Ajo, Arizona, during the Cold War.
